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I BREAST PIN.

No. 322,640. Patented July 21, 1885.

VJIENESSES: INVENTOR ATTORNEY UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HIRAM P. PRUIM, OF GRAND HAVEN, MICHIGAN, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO GEORGE STICKNEY, OF SAME PLACE.

BR EASTPlN.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 322,640, dated July 21, 1885.

Application filed October 7, 1884. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, HIRAM P. PRUIM, a citizen of the United States, residing at the city of Grand Haven, in the county of Ottawa and State of Michigan, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Breastpins, of which the following is a specification.

The invention relates to that class of breastpins having a sharp pin which passes through IO the fabric to which the pin is to be attached,-

and engages with a catch or eye in the ornamental part of the pin; and the objects of my invention are, first, to lock the pin in the catch, and, second, to so construct the pin is proper that it may be readily detached from the breastpin,as hereinafter described. These objects I accomplish by means of the mechanism illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a plan View of my invention inverted. Fig. 2 is a perspective View of the pin detached. Fig. 3 is a side elevation of the breastpin; Fig. 4, a modified form of the breastpin shown in Fig. 1, showing the spring and catch made in one piece.

Similar letters refer to similar parts throughout the several views.

A represents the body of the breastpin.

G is the catch or eye, which catch is provided with a slot and an opening beyond the slot to receive the point of the pin D when the pin D is locked.

B is a spring, preferably of thin metal. The spring B and the catch 0 are sometimes made of the same piece of metal, as shown in Fig. 4, and sometimes separately, as shown in Fig. l. The result in either case is the same.

The pin D is of the bent form shown in 0 Fig. 2, and is provided with the head F, the enlarged portion E, and the neck 6. There may also be a small ring on the pin (shown by f) for convenience in moving the pin, as here inafter described, or, if preferred, this ring f 5 may be dispensed with.

d and d are two holes, preferably circular, connected by the slot 6. The pin D is inserted through one of the openings (2 or d,

when it is held by the spring B in the position shown in Fig. 3. The enlarged part of the pin (shown by E) readily fits into the openings d or d, but is too large to move in the slot e, but the neck e readily slides in the slot. When the part E is in either d or d, the spring holds it there, but by raising the spring B the pin may be moved forward, so that E engages with d, or backward, so that E engages with d. When E is held in d, the breastpin is used in the same manner as or dinary breastpins provided with a catch for 6 the point of the pin; but when the pin D is pressed forward, so that E engages with d, the point of D passes into the eye 0 beyond the slot therein, and cannot be removed until the spring B shall have been raised and the 6 pin D carried backward, so that the point of the pin D will clearthe eye. The pin D is not liable to be broken, for the reason that it has no rigid attachment, but is merely held by the spring B, and may be turned freely in 0 every direction. If by accident the pin D become broken, another pin can be easily inserted with no soldering or riveting, and with no detriment to the breastpin.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim to have invented, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In a breastpin, the part A, in combination with pin D, said pin being attached to the part Aso that the wheel-pin D has a longitudinal movement and also a reciprocating turning movement, whereby the point of the pin may be carried to and from the catch 0 by either the longitudinal movement of the pin or by the turning motion, substantially as described. V

2. The combination of the breastpin A, provided with the catch 0, the pin D, provided with the head F, enlargement E, and neck 6, and the spring B, provided with the 0 openings (1 and d, and slot e, all substantially as described.

HIRAM P. PRUIM.

WVitnesses:

EDWARD TAGGART, FRED W. STEVENS. 

